A floor, not an estimate
The minimum amount of finished business results we owe you each month is written into the contract before we start.
Fixed fee · Finished work, guaranteed in writing
The most expensive word in business is “almost.”
We build and fix the software your company runs on — and we're paid for what gets finished, not how long it takes. That one difference changes everything.
The big firms bill hours, so slow is profitable. We guarantee a minimum of finished work every month at one fixed fee — refund attached — so fast is profitable. Same work, a fraction of the time, because for once your incentives and your partner's point the same direction.
Book an executive briefing →30 minutes. No pitch deck.
900+
Projects delivered
400+
Companies served
140+
Platforms under management
Week 1
First production delivery, every engagement
Trusted by teams at
- Salesforce
- General Mills
- Home Depot
- Nikon
- Invesco
- Raymond James
- Airgas
The point floor
The only delivery guarantee in the industry with a refund behind it.
You tell us the business results you need — faster quoting, cleaner data, systems that finally talk to each other. We put a value on each one together, and your contract guarantees a minimum amount of finished results every month. That's the floor.
Cash if we miss
If we miss the floor and it's on us, you get the same percentage of your fees back that we missed by. Not credits. Cash.
No change orders. Ever.
Business priorities shift? Tell us what matters most now. It moves to the front — and nothing becomes a new invoice.
You set the priorities
You decide what gets done first, second, third — and change your mind any time during the term.
Nobody has ever collected on the floor. We'd like to keep it that way.
See how sizing works →The hiring math
One decision. Two very different P&Ls.
Move the slider to the team you were planning to hire. We'll show the fully-loaded cost — and the year of ramp time — against a Cloud Nerd POD that ships to production in week one, with a contractual floor on what gets delivered.
2 hires
Build in-house
Fully-loaded year-one cost
- Base salary + bonus$314,000
- Benefits & payroll taxes (32%)$100,000
- Recruiting fees (20% of base)$58,000
- Software, tooling & training$24,000
- Office, equipment & overhead$20,000
- Management time & onboarding$24,000
Year one$540,000
⏱ 50–70 days to fill (SHRM) · 6–12 months to full productivity
Retain Cloud Nerd
Everything included in one fixed fee
- Dedicated expert PODIncluded
- DAISA platform accelerationIncluded
- Tooling, QA, documentationIncluded
- Ramp-up periodNone
Fixed monthly$30,000
⚡ Shipping week one — $180,000 less in year one
Sources: ZipRecruiter/Indeed/Glassdoor senior developer & architect salary data for Austin, Dallas & Chicago (2026); BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Mar 2026 (benefits = 30.1% of total comp); standard IT placement fees of 20% of first-year salary; SHRM time-to-fill benchmarks. Tools & overhead lines are estimates. Your briefing includes math built on your actual plan.
Why it outperforms any internal team
Platform. People. Process.
Unmatched together.
Any firm can rent you contractors. What no internal team can replicate is the combination: senior experts, multiplied by a proprietary AI platform, held to a governed delivery process.
I.
Platform — DAISA
Our proprietary AI delivery platform does in hours what takes teams weeks — analysis, build, testing, and documentation across 140+ platforms, with a full audit trail on every engagement.
- 10× throughput per expert
- Complete, automatic documentation
- Institutional memory that never resigns
II.
People — Expert PODs
A dedicated team of senior architects and consultants — the caliber of talent that takes a year to recruit — assigned to your account and accountable to your outcomes.
- Architect-led, senior-only teams
- Deep bench across every major platform
- No junior staffing, no bait-and-switch
III.
Process — Governed delivery
A managed operating rhythm — prioritized backlog, weekly executive reporting, QA gates, and human sign-off on every release. You get managed business systems delivery that runs itself.
- Fixed fee. No surprise invoices
- Weekly reporting you can forward to the board
- Human approval on everything that ships
Engagements
Priced like one line item.
Delivers like a department.
Every engagement is fixed-fee and month-to-month after an initial term. Scale up or down as your roadmap changes — something no headcount plan can do.
Starter POD
Your first systems expert, fractional
$5k / month
Senior expert + DAISA, part-time capacity
- One platform, one prioritized queue
- Admin fixes, automations, small builds
- Weekly delivery summary
- Same point floor, smaller scale
Core POD
Replaces two full-time hires
$15k / month
Architect + delivery experts + DAISA
- One primary platform under management
- Prioritized delivery backlog
- Weekly executive reporting
- Production support & maintenance
Growth POD
Replaces four full-time hires
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Senior POD + DAISA + integration coverage
- Multi-platform & integration ownership
- New builds and enhancements each sprint
- Roadmap & architecture governance
- Priority response SLAs
Enterprise POD
Replaces six or more full-time hires
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Full POD + fractional CTO-level counsel
- Entire stack under management
- Strategic planning & vendor governance
- Compliance-ready documentation
- Board-level quarterly reviews
Not sure where you land? Tell us what your business needs done — we'll value it honestly and tell you if a POD is overkill.
Month one
While a new hire is still
in orientation, we've shipped.
Week 1
Embedded & delivering
POD onboarded to your systems, backlog prioritized with your leadership, first items already in production.
Week 2
Backlog burning down
DAISA-accelerated delivery across your queue — the requests that have sat for quarters start closing.
Week 3
Systems documented
Your environment mapped, documented, and governed — often for the first time in the company's history.
Week 4
Executive review
A written report of everything shipped, everything found, and the 90-day roadmap. Forward it to your board.
For comparison: at day 30, an internal hire has completed HR onboarding, met the team, and — if you're lucky — closed their first small ticket. Full productivity arrives around month twelve. Ours arrived in week one.
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Bring us what needs to get done. Leave with a number.
In one 30-minute briefing we'll value a few of the results your business actually needs, show you the tier that fits, and put a delivery floor on paper — math built on your numbers, not ours.